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Valeria Valdés valeriavaldesb — The number of survivors of WWII are dwindling away. How grateful I am for those who tell the tale. That particular time in history should never be repeated. Mr. Avey completed an incredible journey - keeping his hope and love for fellow man alive. Would that we could all follow his example. We should never forget - in order to never again commit those atrocities. This should be required reading for all. Memorable passages: "It was days before I was able to reflect on those hours in Auschwitz III and appreciate the utter desperation of the place. It was the worst thing you could do to a man, I realised. Take everything away from him - his possessions, his pride, his self-esteem - and then kill him. Kill him slowly. Man's inhumanity to man doesn't begin to describe it. It was far worse than the horror I faced in the desert war." "The question that insulted me most was, 'How many Germans did you kill?' We were forced to do the things we had done and it cheapened the whole thing to talk about it like that. They were inviting us to gloat about the things we wanted to forget. The enemy soldiers we had killed had paid the price and going on about it showed a lack of respect." "There it was and it was so simple. It was the shoes. I had walked over all those bodies. People who slipped and were shot, got frost-bite and were shot, people whose wooden clogs bit into their swollen feet until they fell behind and were shot. Ernie had used the cigarettes to get the one thing that made the difference between life and death: strong boots." "I began to understand why Ernie was telling his story. He was committing it to record so that others in the future would know that he, Ernie Lobet, once had a grandmother named Rosa who lived and was loved by her family. He too was bearing witness." " 'For evil to succeed all that was needed was for the righteous to do nothing.' I was thrilled to hear his words. 'You cannot let things go...you have to fight for what you believe and you can't be passive, you cannot let somebody else do it for you'...People think it could never happen again and particularly that it could never happen here. Don't you believe it; it doesn't take much."

Alexandre Agostinho alexagostinho — i think i had read an article about social dynamics in elephant herds a while before, so the idea of the book appealed to me. i thought it was original, and really well written. prompted me to do a bit more elephant research afterwards, as well.

Angela Cordova gelacoryc3f5 — First time I've read this series. Well written, but I figured out who did it before I was halfway through it. Will try this author again to see if I can figure it out again. If so, that will be the last one I read.